The 澳彩开奖 Announces Launch of New Advocacy Institute
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The 5-Week 澳彩开奖 community leadership program kicks off in Jackson, Miss and is designed to strengthen and support communities by educating and empowering emerging activists, advocates. Deadline for Applications is Friday, May 20th听
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JACKSON, Miss. -- This week the 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) announced the launch of its new Advocacy Institute, a training ground for emerging activists and advocates across the state who are interested in advancing issues that are critical to the improvement of their communities through education, transformative change and collective action. 听听
澳彩开奖鈥檚 Advocacy Institute will be held on the campus of the historic Tougaloo College 鈥� where an inaugural cohort of 30 program participants will be trained on voting rights restoration. They will experience a curriculum that includes lessons on how to advocate for change through protest; community organizing for disenfranchised voters; and working with community partners to connect participants with resources to help support them with re-entry efforts.听
鈥淲hen there is an imbalance of power at the top, how do you counter that? By building power from the ground up,鈥� said Waikinya Clanton, the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 state office director for Mississippi. 鈥淎nd so that鈥檚 how we鈥檙e looking at this Advocacy Institute. We are going to be teaching people how to build power; how to understand the rules of engagement; and how to work through and navigate the resources that are available to them, suffrage being one of them.鈥澨�
In collaboration with the 澳彩开奖 Voting Rights Practice Group, the State Office recognizes the enormous opportunity the institute presents for countless Mississippians and is why we have designed it to specifically address the needs of impacted persons and their families.听
鈥淭he most concerted work to end felony disenfranchisement, is already being done by the people most deeply impacted by it. The goal of the institute is 鈥渢o build the foundation of power so that this movement can be led directly by impacted folks, but in a more cohesive way鈥� said John Paul Taylor, 澳彩开奖 Field Director for Voting Rights.听
The Advocacy Institute will welcome its first class of thirty fellows on June 25th, during a five-week program that will include speakers and learning modules that will explore Mississippi鈥檚 history with voting, as well as, voting rights laws in Mississippi and helping students navigate the road to rights restoration. 听
Access the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Advocacy Institute application here.听
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